Brewers' Playoff Drama & The Black Travel Movement Unveiled

Good morning. Welcome to Community Voice today after the night before. Man, dude, dude, I'm telling you, man, this is, I don't know if we have brood fever, but I was telling Jermaine that when I went to the store during the game,

and it was like on North Avenue around 530 quarter to six near the syndix is bumper to bumper. There was no traffic. No traffic. Like I can't recall ever around this time having a feeling that's in the air. It's something that's in the air. You know, going on in the sports realm as the preachers will say. But it's something that's most definitely brewing. No pun intended.

uh in here man something something is bro and you can feel it it's it's like a walkie fever man it's like you can feel i can feel it in here something in here man what's up clark who you with hey man what's you man oh you got a can go on the deck my man and plenty can go i'll sit up here

Uh, what up writer? I told the story that, uh, when, uh, we had, um, we had just moved in. I can't give where I live because my wife goes nuts, but we just, we had just moved in and, um, so the doorbell rings. And, um, so I go to the door, round us upstairs. There's a young lady. She had her daughter and the older gentleman. I'm talking like an older dude, right?

So get to the door and he I can hear him saying I don't know these people. I don't know these people so She rings the doorbell. She asked does Rhonda Taylor live here? Oh Yeah, and Rhonda's at the top of the stairs. Yeah. Yeah, why and She hadn't seen Rhonda, right? And she gone cuz she she mess with my man Now

I don't want any of you older brothers out there to be offended But the brother had on like a Kango hat head on some Stacy Adam shoes and You know old player so when she finally sees Rhonda She realizes oh That ain't who I thought it was yeah, right because what he had did was he had missed out the number

And back then, you know, women, they star 69, and then you go to the directory and get the address and then come by the crib and you know, she going and he kept saying, I don't know these people. I don't know these people. So then I look at Rhonda. I need to jump on you.

for kicking it with a Dita suit. Oh, man. Oh, player. Oh, player. Man, that was so crazy. And then later on, you know, Dave Chappelle did the famous skit when keeping the grill goes bad. But, you know, that could have turned into something. Yeah. Now, the whole crazy thing about it is it really could have been

Terrible because she could have came over there on some dummy right acting a fool and all along he was right He didn't know y'all and all because he missed out all because he missed out a number and Whatever cost her to whether it was her insecurity

whether he did something before and got caught or she was doing something or whatever it was. Well, she must have had some some type of reason. Yeah. That's my woman, man. That's my woman, man. That's my woman, man. That's my woman, man. That's my woman, man. That's my woman, man. That's my woman, man. That's my woman, man. That's my woman, man. That's my woman, man. That's my woman, man.

Hey, Keith, we'll be right back. Keith is no longer with us. We come back on the air. Keith is no longer with us. Keith is no longer with us. There is a gold fund for his bail.

Clark, you're terrible, Clark. Oh, he did this now. He knew what he was doing. Oh, man. As if we don't have enough issues in our marriage. He was terrible, Clark. Oh, my God. I remember one time there was a song. I don't even remember the song, but the song was on. We're in the car, right? And Rhonda over there, she just, oh, man. This is her jam. She into the song.

I don't know if it was things I missed at home, whatever it was. I'm looking over there, boy. That ain't one of ours. How you start locking that stuff up? That ain't one of ours. Oh, man, you don't always say that Rod and I have three things in common, right? We both love shoes, right? We both Baptist.

And we like the same piece of chicken, right? We both like the thigh. Oh yeah, thigh is the best piece. And so, I don't know, a little while back, I kind of wanted to change it up. Especially when I was frying chicken. And I brought in like some chicken breast. And she was looking at me. When you start eating chicken breast. Who are you being on? Who could do cooking chicken breast? Who could do cooking chicken breast?

Oh boy, it's a setup. It's a setup. How fast you went back to the fast? I'm taking these back to the stove. Ain't right, the breasts ain't been in since. Hey, because it's like soon as you change your powders. Yeah. First little powder. Yeah, some is innocent as, uh, yeah, when you start eating chicken breasts, like, ooh, I just stopped. Just stopped. Anyway, good, good, good. Yeah, I don't, um.

Douglas was asking me What I thought I you know, um and this is I'm talking about the original idea. This is one of the things I have not really sat down and watched a baseball game all baseball season I mean, I'd be in and out just watch it get the score get updates, but Man since the playoffs I've watched every game. I mean beginning to end and this was

First of all, the Brewers had the best bullpen in baseball. And again, let me shout out, as a matter of fact, they did it on Sports Center this morning, Jake Bowers, because that at bat he had with Yamamoto. He knocked them out the game, and then they went to the bullpen. And it looks like...

The Brewers learned from last year, you know, and this stage is not too big for them, though, though, still making too many errors, man. Henderson, Henderson really could have cost us the game. Unearned run. Yeah, because those throwaways, man. Don't worry, if he still let them steal, you know, I mean, because obviously you can't hold them on. Right. So,

No, it was when I was coming from the store. I'm listening to the game in the car And my guy called me right when the play at home. Oh, yeah Listen to the car. I'm going oh, you wouldn't call me right when right when they're doing the replay and didn't go Oh, man, he's out. I said, okay So yeah, I agree with you You know we were talking about 82. Yeah, and Just when the brewers won the pennant

How man people lost their minds here. I mean I was downtown. It was a bunch of us who went downtown so They look a lot better than they did last year against the Dodgers So we'll see We'll see it was good that they they won the two here That makes it easier home filled advantage and I think Let's see the way it works now

To do to do Mizorowski will be pitching in game five if there's a game five So, um, I think they go If they win one at LA, that's all they gotta do. Yeah, one that one see but the whole scary part about this whole LA trip is three games in LA. Yeah, so By us being up two games to none if they go in LA and lay an egg or three games

But you know what I say they're gonna go so I said myself is going set. Yeah, but let me you know this they had good They had some good games in LA during the regular season Yeah, they did not in San Diego. That's why I was worried about San Diego They could not win in San Diego, but they've been able to win in LA and then LA has to make a decision about a tiny because at this point He's hurt man and and people say it's the threat

But I think they look I should be given the Dodgers any advice But no, I think so just win one Just win one. Yeah, yeah, if we can get one in LA, I think it'd be great cuz then The last two games is here. Yeah. Yeah, but the thing about it Out in LA is gonna be nice and warm, right? Nice and warm here. Well, yeah, but I'm saying if they end up coming back

It's going to be cool once. Yeah, but we got a roof. But out in LA is wide open and it's a hitter's part. So by it being warm air, it's going to be a lot of home runs if they get underneath the ball. But the Dodgers have not been hitting home runs, right? They have left a lot. And this started in the last series against Atlanta. A lot of base runners stayed on base. So they're not bringing them in. That's how the Brewers play. Get on.

What the Dodgers want to do is get a person on and then one of their home run hitters will come. Now look, the pressure is definitely on the Dodgers and they might be able to find their mojo and start hitting. But they're a home run team. Yeah, power, power team. Right. And then when you look at, they were just talking about just how low scoring.

the playoffs have been, that's because the pitching has been so good. And they both playing good, man. And to me, the way they playing like they playing careful, you know what I'm saying? Well, the whole good thing about it that I was watching and checking out is the bullpen, our bullpen is going four or five innings, scoreless innings after the starter come out. So that's what's helping us is the bullpen going scoreless.

They can they can they it is a shut down bullpen. Yeah And I like the cubs where you really want to get to their bullpen. Yeah, I think the Brewers they kind of especially and when it was like 4-4 You know, it's kind of like what's the strategy? Hey, you're rebe man. That boy good. He was mad. Okay Was that that he made the right decision by taking them out? Well, yes, he did

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But I didn't like Josh Hader in the first place, because he only had one pitch. Yeah, but it was effective. He was like the best closer. No, man, no. He was the best closer. But he used to lose so many games for us. Or he'd give up a home run because he's a fastball hitter. That's all he had. So they knew it was either going to be a fastball or a get-out. But McGill basically, all he has is a fastball. But I think he got three pitches in his face. Yeah, but his fastball is his bread and butter. Yeah, but with Josh, with Josh, we knew.

It was either going to be a fastball in, out, high, low. That's it. So you can guess. And that's how we was losing a lot the window was our closer. So even when we traded them to the Dodgers. No, he went to Padres. Padres. You see what happened when he went over there. And I didn't realize that Detroit wanted Henderson for Scuba. I think I would have did that.

I'm gonna tell you why you wouldn't do it. Excuse me, once Google is a free agent, which means you only get it for half a season. That same thing we had with C.C. Sebastiac, right? The other thing is they, Henderson's a rookie and he signed for six, what, seven years? So you don't, yeah, you don't, because you're gonna lose Google. You know, Milwaukee couldn't afford to sign him. So, you know, you just had it. So, you know, one of the best young teams in baseball, like I think it helped.

that a lot of these folks were in the championship last year, championship series. So yeah, it's Brewer Fever as well as it should be. And then the whole thing was, oh, what time is it in Arizona?

And if I'm not mistaken, didn't he call during Michelle's seven o'clock hour? Which means that it's five in the morning when you call Michelle. And it's seven o'clock. So if there's a call out there, let us know what time it is in Arizona.

this cat is missing an accident when I heard him going like, yeah, okay. But what time is it? He didn't call yesterday because he called Michelle, I thought. See, I don't play. We're in Sunday, right? Oh, yeah, they play Sunday. So he didn't call Monday. I know he here. So he didn't call Monday and talk about that old.

Slacking they took right, right, right, right. That was a good game though. Yeah, that was a good game Yeah, and I didn't realize how good Fred Warner is for the 49ers. Oh, yeah, that dude that dude's a beast man But yeah, that was yeah, so anyway, I didn't know what time it was 717 and Arizona if I'm correct So maybe it's just early Maybe he got up so early

called Michelle then he went back to bed to get a nap. Right so he get ready for work. Yeah. So you know what I don't understand people all you know trying to say well since they didn't have Kayla Williams that they played against a backup and that's why the Packers won. No because we still got to execute. We didn't let them tongue last me George. Okay okay so we're assuming that um

No, no, they did not have now. I did say this because I bumped into a guy at the store who was a bearish fan. He wouldn't know what the score was. And I told him at that point, it's thirty one seven. But then I pointed out to him that the next time the Packers play, Caleb Williams will be playing because it'll be Christmas. Yeah. So you're listening to a community voice caller. No, I got time. I'm sorry. Call it. Okay.

Okay. Call her up to the program. Hey, I was going to ask you two questions Mr. Parr. Did you see how the niggas was acting on TV last night? You know, they got niggas beat at the Trump rally. And my question is, I hope Black men watch that. Don't get that in your head that you can hear it on women. Okay? Huh? I haven't seen it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was crazy that they had a jump on that woman like that. Yeah, you know, that's what they got.

No, they're white, but they got niggas beat because you know they act like a bunch of animals and you know Republicans and white supremacy ain't them, but another version of niggas. We always said that just somebody just don't want to admit it. And then my other question to you on that is how do you feel about taking a paper and putting the name on it and burning it with salt and chicken blood?

Don't know Okay, well I'll wait for your comment cuz they got niggas beat They up there acting like a bunch of unhinged animals. They beating on these women They f'ing they kids they messing with the animals You know what I'm and I'm glad they did that cuz I always said this before they was nothing but niggas and they got niggas beat That's why so many niggas like them, but I just want to just let these niggas know don't get in your head You can hit on black women because you're already taking medication patches

and you're already taking insulin. So one false move, you will be in a nursing home. Have a good day back. Have insulin. Well, that's been our quota for the next four months. I've been doing pretty good, George. I have not dropped that word. Now, I have not seen it. I got to go back and I have to see it. I didn't, you know, I heard about it.

I saw a little clip where he was referring to El Said as a jihadist. And when we come back, let's talk about what's happening with Ilan Omar and what they're doing in the Justice Department. Because everybody's talking about this Trump Justice Department. But those of us who grew up in the 60s understood that a lot of what we see with this Justice Department, J. Edgar Hoover,

was doing in the 60s. So man, I think this dude is losing his mind. He talking about renaming the ocean to the Trump ocean. You're listening to Community Voice. It's so crazy, man. It's crazy. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. Vem with your host, Keith Parris. Welcome back. I have a caller. Call and welcome to the program.

Good morning. Hey, good morning. How are you doing? Good, man. What's happening? Good question. Yes, sir. Did you know that J. Edgar Hoover was a black man? Really? Well, yeah, there were some rumors, right? Yeah, I watched a special on, uh, uh, kind of 36, uh, about a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago, where they did a, uh,

They did a, you know, I guess they, you know, he was doing up this thing on the FBI and how he became head of the FBI. And they went all into it in its background. And his birth certificate was never found.

Grand I'm in that if you if you need to be such that whole family that's very interesting But that's he's not he's not he's not a white man. That's a black man And he was able to pull that off if you do a research on Jaguar who then But he changed the FBI Plan to the point to where that he became

in charge over that whole FBI field. That was won a buck, but he was able to pull it off. And he never married. He had a partner. Yeah, Coulson.

Yeah, and he left everything to him. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Because, uh, whatever you want, I was doing things, you know, became part of the FBI and became, you know, as partners, you know, they became uplifted by living together. Well, well, he was able to do and how he was able to basically extort money from Congress. Hey, uh, write up.

And that's what I'm saying that what you're saying from this Justice Department.

looks very familiar in terms of what was going on, certainly in the 50s going after a communist and then in the 60s going after civil rights activists going after anti-war and activists, you know, the files that he had, he files on just about everybody of prominence. Have you ever heard, I think it is at the King Albert plan. Are you familiar with that?

Pull this out. Pull this out. Pull this out.

It would be an argumentative question. It would be a back and forth question, but the bounding problem starts in there. But if it's a book out, I forgot the name. I forgot the title. I wrote the title down, misplaced it. And then another thing I thought about is about the KKJ. If you research

You gotta do some serious research about the KKK. They got that from a black organization. Okay, but you know, you done all due respect. You didn't put a lot of negatives. Look, I'm not claiming J. Edgar Hoover as a black man. I'm not. I mean...

This was on channel 36. No, I got I'm just saying in my mind and I know a lot of times because you know people Some things, you know, that kind of puts it puts it on us and I don't want that on us You know I wrote it down like man, I want to tell my baby and the lady was you know

going to be first trying to find a book and change from another little town that it was the hidden fathers, the hidden fathers and but you know just to throw that out there. All right man. Appreciate it. All right, appreciate you. Found the fathers. I kind of hate to put it that use that term but

those dudes was white and it it and it could have been maybe some in the lineage but um you know and and i'm i'm one of these people that um when i when i asked the young people the question was jesus uh white or if i asked him jesus was black the correct answer is neither black nor white he's Mediterranean not Mediterranean he's middle middle eastern he's Semitic um and and

Because I think that sometimes black folks, we can fall into that trap of, I don't even know how to say this delicately, so then I won't. All right, you'll listen to a community where someone take a break. Maybe I'll come up with the words when I get back. We'll be right back.

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800-975-4011. Lord, who took the building fund? And again, welcome back, you know, before we'd gone to break. I mentioned that the Justice Department has raided the home. Let's do this because Donald Trump was so upset when

the Justice Department, the FBI had gone in and executed a search warrant in his home, and he didn't say one to be raided. But they executed a search warrant for Representative Ihom Omar of Minnesota yesterday. The allegations are that she did some fraud in terms for immigration, application, and conspiracy. Based on the article in The New York Times, they're saying that the judge was rather reluctant.

to allow the search warrant, which is this thing. I don't know if you all were watching the Jack Smith hearings and they were talking about how when he had gone in to ask for warrants to obtain the toll records of Republican members of Congress on January.

these six who received, um, phone calls from Trump administration, some of the conspirators. And so that then they went in and it's called, there's something, there's a constitutional issue here. Uh, I remember coming up in the, let's see.

The search warrant was a subject significant back and forth between the prosecutors and federal judge who eventually approved it, according to people familiar with the matter. The first application for the search was submitted by prosecutors more than a week ago and was only approved after discussion of the possible constitutional.

constitutional issues like the speech or debate clause. And that came up in the Jack Smith hearing, the speech and debate clause when it comes to members of Congress. Then the other thing is the Justice Department had a longstanding principle that they would not initiate an investigation or announce investigation 90 days before an election.

And so it just made me go back when people talk about this Justice Department, and I hear some of the commentators and they act as if this is a new thing. This is not a new thing, right? It was done under, again, Jay McHouver in the 60s and really had the tactic approval of both Bobby Kennedy. I think Ramsey Clark became

He became Attorney General after Bobby Kennedy will do surveillance is people very familiar now with the surveillance is that the FBI did on Dr. King bugging his hotel rooms his offices recording dalliances that he had sends the tape to his wife So this is not new in terms of what we're seeing in terms of behavior of the Justice Department

And and then, you know, Trump being the liar that he is. Oh, I'm not aware. Is this happening? Like they weren't going to run that up the flagpole. But then it's interesting because the woman is a guillafoy who was married engaged to his son, Eric Trump, who is the ambassador to Greece right now and.

Her basically extorting potential donor to pay off her $100,000 American Express bill. She's flying around on jets of Greek oil tycoons. And they said something I never thought about, regardless of the administration, Democrat or Republican, that if you're an ambassador to Europe, that means that you don't have a lot of diplomatic.

experience and we saw that locally when Tom Barrett was made ambassador to Luxembourg. You know, and they talk about Greece. I mean, so these, now if you're talking England's a little bit different just because the level of France, but other parts of Europe where there's no real strategic importance.

In people's minds though that I think there is they're part of European Union Union So I just watch what happens with this to see what they're gonna be able but you know, they you know Richard Nixon had an enemy list and That was secret Donald Trump has an enemy list and his public He's encouraging people, but let's see what happens with gilfoy whether or not they're going to fire her and I think it's amazing

with all the corruption that we're seeing, you know, in this administration, they don't like the bad optics. The judge, I don't know if any of you have seen those ads that Trump has been running. They're really political ads paid for by the Department of Homeland Security. A judge has ordered them to stop, but they still continue to play them.

Now Kristi Noem lost her job Allegedly because she was producing these ads Right using taxpayers money just to promote her department and him If y'all don't think voting is important If y'all don't think voting is important every day

We see indications of why voting is important. Let me say this and I was saying this to Clark and to Jermaine off air Trump is going to Alaska Trump is going to Montana Trump is going to Ohio again Trump is going to Georgia But Trump is he coming to Wisconsin? Hey, mr. President mr. President

Just just a guy Come to Wisconsin. We'd love to have you here. Please please Kimberley was engaged to Donald Jr. And I think she was married to Gavin Newsom So Yeah, so please please because he's going places saying Act as if I'm on the ballot. Please come to Wisconsin So we can act as if you're on the ballot Please come

Okay. All right. Let me read some of the comments. Let's see if you don't take my advice and watch Linus. Even half of it is true. He don't give a damn. He cut down those trees even after the judge told him not to. It seems like it's been 15 years and it's been less than two. I mean, every day. Now.

Jermaine was asking me what basically wanted to know why are people still supporting him? That's a good question That's a real good question. It really seems like It really seems like it's deeper than than this whole surface stuff that we are seeing and It seems like a cult There's definitely a cult of personality. Yeah, but

People do it and and here's another little thing if you're not paying attention When Pete Hesse was on the Lincoln he unveiled a new symbol for the Department of Defense It is the same eagle that was used by the Nazi Party in Hitler in Germany Yeah, same Whoa, whoa

So I know they convinced a lot of folks. It's not cool to be woke But you you you might want to be woke Yeah, well, I mean first of all Nobody Operating function right sleep like if you sleep walking you're not able to drive you're not able to do anything sleep But if you're woke you're able to see where you're going you're able to hear you have a conscious and

If you look at it, they really don't want you to know. Really? Sleepwalking zombies. Really? Yeah. You know, there's a reason why they didn't want enslaved Africans to learn how to read. Because they knew that they was going to catch on. Oh, yeah. There's a reason why they had a redacted Bible for enslaved Africans. Because any part of that Bible that was taught

that talked about your humanity and your right to throw off in terms of justice, the yoke of oppression. Oh no, we don't want these African people to learn that. That's why, and I got a lot of compliments on yesterday's program. So let me, again, let me thank Dr. Stanley and Dr. Garmin. But man, the conversations that we need to have

And the spaces that we need to have these conversations in becomes, you know, critically important. Critically important. All right, you're listening to Community Voice. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're joined in studio by some very special guests this morning from the Black Travel Summit. Ms. Asha Sawyer.

Hello. Hi. Hi. And Ms. Anita Moreau. Hello. Good morning. Well, and you? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Before, you know, very interesting background. Where are you from originally? I was born and raised in London from East African and Caribbean parents. And now I'm based in Miami, Florida. OK. East Africa, where in East Africa? The Seychelles. Oh, OK. OK.

Y'all know I'm born and raised Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Fourth and Keith, what? All over all over Milwaukee, but yeah, probably where it started. That's my old neighborhood. That was fifth and Keith up the hill. You know how it is. Yeah, I do. Going down in the valley.

I feel excluded. I feel excluded. I need to be a part of this. For a good reason. It starts at Port Washington, the top of the hill on Keith Avenue, and then you work your way down to that second street. We used to call that the valley, because it's dark. There's some of the darkest streets. Oh, it was dark. And it used to be, you don't know, because you're young, but there used to be a minute mark there, right? So I would go down to that minute mark, you know, when we would

So tell us about the Black Travel Summit winners. So Black Travel Summit is an annual convening of Black Travel, sorry. Black Travel Summit is an annual convening of Black Travel and tourism professionals. It's a B2B business and networking event. We connect the

I'm sorry, I did put that on silent. I don't know what happened. WNLV is so used to this, man. Wait, I'll be watching y'all show. Y'all be having it. I was like, that was so rude. But you know, my phone goes off. No collectors calling while you're in the air. I'm not trying to air out my phone just like that now. I'm at work. How do you get disrupted?

Yeah, so we're an annual convening of Black Travel and Tourism Professionals. It's a B2B networking event. And so we work a lot with brands, with destination marketing organizations, and then also travel businesses, entrepreneurs within the Black Travel community. So it's a real pleasure. So when you talk about Black Travel, a lot of us will, you know, if I'm going home, I'll

book mode flight. This is more when we're talking about cruises, tours, types of travel. The gamut, so tourism professionals, that includes advisors, tour operators, that includes travel suppliers. What we're really looking at is the celebration of Black culture and travel, the movement as well of travel within the Black community. And then our contributions to tourism in general, the industry. So what would be, you know, is there

things that are more specific when you target potential black customers? So because we're primarily a B2B, majority of our attendees are tourism professionals. So they are your travel advisors. They are your tour operators. They are travel content creators. They own their own businesses as well within the travel and tourism space. And they really just need a space, which is why we've created an ecosystem.

to provide an opportunity to connect with the brands they may not have been able to. We work with Hyatt hotels. We work with American Airlines. We've worked with Royal Caribbean. We work with Armour Waterways. Obviously, Visit Milwaukee is our host this year. Thank God for them, you know. And so it's important when we have and create these partnerships.

And it comes from, you know, wanting to have intentional relationships, but also that care that is poured back into our community as well the same way that we pour into industries in general and don't really receive the.

you know the acknowledgement for that. Absolutely and one of the reasons that I love it is because there was a way of looking at travel that didn't include us in the picture and to just see the content that you guys are putting out the people that you're attracting and kind of opening us up to all of the people who are making ways in this industry. Are you talking specifically about the travel professionals or are you talking about

I'm like traveling customers. I'm saying what I what I just mentioned was about how travel, especially global travel is how it's portrayed.

when they're doing their marketing, right? So when they're showing somebody going to Spain or somebody's going to Belize, it does not look like me. I actually have to seek that content out. And since I've been looking at Black Travel Summit, I've just been, it's like, it's been like, honey to the soul. Like, what a minute. We everywhere. You see yourself. Yes. And just seeing the vibrant Black boy, joy, Black girl, joy all over the place in all of these different countries. It's like, I can now see myself

And they were in Rio last year, right? Yes. I can see myself in Rio in their joy in the content that they're putting out. So I love what y'all are doing. Thank you. I mean, at the end of the day, we want to make sure people know.

that travel is accessible, right? And I think a lot of the times we look outward and like Asha was saying, if you don't see yourself in the marketing, if you don't see yourself in the ads, it's almost like that social conditioning that makes you feel like, okay, you know, like, I'm good within my circle, maybe I don't need to travel, but then maybe it's not as accessible

as it could potentially be as well, which is why we work with those tourism professionals because they create more of an opportunity for our people to be able to travel, to find the deals, right? To even just think about how do I start this process for planning as well? Some people find it a little bit overwhelming, especially if you have them. Let me ask you a question, Keith. So when you think about marketing that you've seen about travel,

would you say you've seen things that call you to Atlanta or things that call you to the Netherlands? Meaning they look like they're for you. Because I've been called to Atlanta. They call me all the time. They be like, come over here. Atlanta is for you. But I don't feel like Italy is for me. Well, I don't know if my wife is listening, but she just recently

went last year, they went on a European tour. And they went, I think it's London, Paris, and then, oh, the Netherlands. But they wanted to do that. No, and it was organized by someone. So I don't know if it was a private person or they went through a travel group to be able to do it. But you're right. I mean, in terms of marketing for people to visit, now I tell you who,

Obviously the cruise ship folks have a very strong marketing presence in terms of people wanting to and then us Going to the islands, you know the Caribbean. Yeah, but we don't think about like going to Brazil Yeah, where there is that's part of our diaspora China even people in China since Alan Iverson left

We live everywhere and we're indigenous to a lot of places in Asia that...

we don't think of. You don't think of, right? You don't think of. And so we are everywhere. Our presence is global. And so I think when we have a better understanding of our global presence, it becomes more of a like, okay, this is actually a reason for me to want to get out there and explore. I may, you know, because a lot of times we go places even within our own home countries, right? But we don't feel welcome. We don't feel accepted, right? And so I think this idea also exists within the notion of travel as well.

But I actually asked the question, do I see me? And a little bit of traveling we've done in the Caribbean, I went looking for me. In other words, I wanted to know, what was the African presence? We were in Panama. I wanted to know what the African presence was when we were in Puerto Rico. What is the African presence, right? And so, you know, and then you go places like Jamaica, you go like, so people go because of the beach and all these things. But

I don't know if people also as part of that travel have a geek part of the trip. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Majority of the reason why we travel as a community is for that cultural connection, that cultural immersion. I mean, a lot of us like to travel for food. I'm a foodie, so I will travel for the food, but I also want to be able to see myself and understand at least my broader community as the African diaspora's contribution to that land.

I want to go to Italy just so I can have an Italian soda. And why not? I'm going for the wine, y'all. I don't know what y'all talking about. Yeah, well, the wine, but I mean, and then obviously just the, because when you start talking about places like Spain, Portugal, parts of Italy, we understand that there's an African, Arabic, Moorish influence of presence there. And so then again,

You know, that's us. Exactly. And to be able. But I don't know if a lot of people do that. And maybe people being exposed will say that there's possibilities. A lot of us, I know it's on my bucket list. I want to go to Africa. Where in Africa? Ghana. Nice. The door of no return. The door of no return. Someone who is an international traveler said, oh, you should go to South Africa.

Now, that's the other part of the Bantu people, but I'm more directly linked to the Bantu people in Ghana. Yeah, Northwest. Right. And then to even talk about that, so to be able to travel, like I said, you'll see a lot in terms of enjoyment. Like my wife had taken out my godson. She's chaperoned him. He was in the AAU tournament in Vegas. And she took him kicking and screaming to the Hoover Dam. And he still talks about

the 113 degrees but what he learned by going to the Hoover Dam. So I think I'd say the geek part of it obviously the the fun part of it is always there but certainly when you say see us we need to go places because we'd be surprised the influence of us in a lot of these spaces. Absolutely I think that's one of the things that also inspired me to create

this space and it's such a small part of what.

the broader Black travel community is doing and obviously I feel so blessed to even have the people who have come into this space with me to build this vision, right? But I'm an archaeologist by nature, you know, I have my masters in archaeology and so yes, I do. We learn something every day. It's in her bio. I didn't read it, I knew it. It was in her bio, that's why I asked where she's from.

I was looking like none of these schools are in America. No, that's fascinating. Well, then that would make them travel. Exactly. The black travel movement to me personally, especially as an archaeologist looking up from it, from that anthropological mindset is not new to us. I mean, humans wouldn't be where we are if you're not.

if it were not for the black travel movements, right? Or when you start thinking about the out of Africa migration, the idea of movement as migration. So there's a depth to it as well that I like to tap into. Yeah, and I think, you know, when we go, in archaeology is a relatively young science, relatively young, right?

But how important archaeology is how important anthropology is right being able and I'm talking about accurate Because you know again that the question Asha asked is really almost a It's a bigger question because as descendants of enslaved Africans here We want to see ourselves

And sometimes it's saying you've seen yourself in the space that you weren't in, but that's okay. Can't be in every space, right? But to be able to go and understand that and that whole travel piece. And I also think it speaks to this story that we keep having to confront, which is where do we belong? And we get to decide where we're going.

We get to take up space where we take up space. We are part of humanity wherever humanity is found. And every time I see myself in my people, wherever we are, it speaks to me, it strengthens me and inspires me to take up space wherever I am. Exactly.

Absolutely. Especially as the originators. Come on now. Yeah. Can we talk about it now? Hold on. Is this the place? Is this the place where it is? Well, no. As we have a little Richard moment here. I'm the originator. Where was Mr. Petainia? Let's talk about it. You know, which is even let's just go beyond those of us who

And the vast majority of us here are Bantu people, right? I'm Somali. My grandfather was from Somali. I was going to say, you look like my camp folks. So East Africa. My mom is Ghanaian, sure. Well, foundational black American, we don't really know.

And this is kind of an aside I found it interesting back in the 60s when we were really into Black is beautiful and becoming more Afrocentric that we chose an East African language Swahili To be that that tongue What I later discovered was again many of us being part of the band to people There's like 600 some languages

among band two people. And that is not even talking about what people in terms of East Africa and what that was. Wow. Very interesting. I love this conversation. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I think, you know, because we don't talk a lot about it. I think we need to do more of that during Black History Month. Yes, for sure. Because, you know, we tend to, I'll never forget, I saw a T-shirt in DC and this young brother had on this T-shirt.

and he said that black history started 400 years ago and I don't know if he was doing that using because you know black could be pejorative in terms of this designation of people of african descent and I was thinking no brah no african history

is ancient history, right? And so long before we got here, I even, I tell people in church, we worship God long before we ever encounter Christianity. Amen. You know, and so understand that to be able to embrace that. And I know we're getting, because I'm always trying to push back on a lot of this Eurocentric stuff that's part of our thinking. But I think that travel thing just opens up. There were some folks who went to

I'm moving that went from when they went to Israel. It's no longer on my bucket list. They went to Israel, but then they went to Egypt and Then they began to find out. Oh There were Africans who were part of the Bible. Yes Yes, I didn't realize that Moses's wife Come on now. Yes was African. Yes, he married an African woman after Sarah. Yeah No, that was Abraham

I'm sorry, after his wife. No, but Abraham, no. Um, um, Hagar, she was African. She was African. She was of African descent. Absolutely. Have you looked into the Ethiopian Bible? No, I have not. Okay.

It is the eldest. Yeah and so again when we go back to this idea of originators right there is nothing new under the sun and so when we find out about different industries or these industries or ideas or notions that have been created as always

there's always a route to it. And so when you think about Christianity, right? There's something more to be discovered. And I think this is also, again, one of the reasons why it's important to travel and to get out there, just because you learn so much about your people and in turn, learn about yourself. Because some of the earliest practitioners of Christianity were African people.

Exactly. Cree comes out of Africa. And if you want to learn more about African doctrine, that is really the forefront of all of the doctrine, Christian non-doctriner, you can find its roots in Africa. You can follow a project called Jude 3 Project, which talks about African scholars, like Trichelion, that we don't really hear about these names. You know, we've got our St. Augustine's, but nobody talks about Trichelion and the fact that some of the foremost first Christian thinkers that created a lot of the doctrines that we live to today.

Because of Palestine's proximity to Egypt. Yeah. And Egypt was really the seat of knowledge. Yeah. You think about the University of Alexandria, for example. Yeah. All right. We can talk about this forever. Forever and a day. You'll listen to Community Voice. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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with your host, Keith Parris. Well, I had a Morgan Freeman moment. Didn't he almost sound like the voice of God? I started looking around like, Oh, Miss Anita Moreau, Miss Asha Sawyer. And again, they're here to talk about the blacks.

Black Travel Summit. This is an opportunity where all these folks who operate in the travel space, right? But particularly Black folks, we will be giving away tickets. What are we giving away tickets for, Ms. Asha? Yes, we are giving away four tickets to the Black Travel Summit Film Festival, which will be at No Studios. This is going to be a full day of really amazing content. You want these tickets, okay?

I'm sorry? When is it? So this is going to be on Thursday, the first day of the conference. The 22nd? Nope, this is October 15th. So this Thursday, Film Festival will start at 10 a.m. and it's going to go right on through to 4 p.m. You want these tickets, so get ready to call in so that we can see who's going to get these tickets.

All right, what that said the phone lines open for one four four four four five two five zero four one four four four five two five zero in the content Anita I'm loving the braids ladies

I want to be like, you're going to grow up. What are you talking about? I'm just I'm just looking. My mother was a beautician, right? Yeah. I'm just looking at the beauty of your scalp. My husband said the same thing to me the other day. I was like, my scalp, that's what you want to call me. Is he American? He's Haitian America. He's Haitian. Oh, yeah. My mother's beautician, man, when they get up and start cleaning that scalp and getting everything, your scalp looks so healthy. That's how you get a man. Keep that scalp. Oh, man, it looks.

Like I said, anybody that's old school, no. You know, my mother had this thing. She said that there's no such thing as bad hair when it comes to black people. She said, heat and grease. And so I don't, two things, yeah, two things I don't do. I will never say anything discharging about a dark.

African person and I will never say you got good hair or you know now there's some people though You be looking like oh that's nice I was just watching a old school video. It was Denise Williams and Johnny Mathis

And Johnny Mather out his hair was so cold. Yeah. And then we, you know, this is why I love our African people all over the world. Our creativity. Back back in the day, it was Afro Sheen. And the people at Afro Sheen came up with this marketing thing. So this guy is Afro. It was red. It was red.

Fred Douglass comes in, Fred Douglass. We're that nice, because if you look at the pictures back in the day, Fred Douglass had a nice fro, right? And he said, you're not going to leave like that. I'm going, they use Fred Douglass.

like that and you know, he's looking at his stuff. It's like that whole Frederick Douglass fro. Um, oh, who else? Oh, uh, Mary, Mary MacLeod, her hair. Oh my God.

Oh, yeah. Oh, her hair was. Oh, man. I still use horses. Now, and again, you know, keep it moisturized. Yeah, moisturized. Your scalp is not looking like that. Now, listen. Now, speaking of scabs, you know, that's, man, that's one of my pickup lines. I walk up to a young lady and be like, girl, your scalp is... Give me your numbers. Work every time. Work every time. Your scalp is...

You listen again, if you want to win tickets, you can call it right now, 414-444-525-010. Oh, I got you. Oh, I got you. Scapers, baby. Scapers, we're banging. And we must be enlightened. Like, her husband, you're right. And you know, getting compliments in a marriage sometimes is like a manhole cover. Yeah. You listen to the movie, boys. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back.

With your host Keith Parris welcome to the program Good morning Hello Like before Hello That was it so again if you want to win tickets what what are they winning tickets for tell us Anita

So they're winning tickets to the Black Travel Film Festival that takes place this Thursday at No Studios from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. a celebration of Black stories in travel and and again like we would been talking about movement, movement across the globe, our global presence. Carla, welcome to the program. Hello. Yes. Hey.

Yeah, everybody's a winner when you call community voice. All right, Kathy. Appreciate you. Don't go anywhere. Okay, but the question I have, too, is that at the last minute of telling us that some people work or gather schedules and then they put a run to this event. Is this just one traveling business or just somebody off the street? Because it's always for coming on 24 hours before you have an event. It's kind of

I'm timely to get there. If there's trip up from work and you have something to do that 24 hours later when people do have a schedule. Okay, sorry. You still want the tickets, right? And that is a great question in the sense that we were going to talk a little bit about who is this for and how can you get involved if you want to get involved? Yes, so

Although majority of the work that we do, the sessions, the presentations, the breakouts, the conversations that we're having is for professionals within the tourism space. At the end of the day, this is not a place where people are excluded, right? And so even if you are in the travel space, you may not want to be a content creator. You may not want to get into the business as an advisor. But if you just want to learn overall about our impact on travel, how to travel more, how to

to create that income, for example, to be able to support your travel goals. And again, just connecting at the end of the day, whenever there's a celebration of us, it's always going to be a good time. It's always going to be a good time.

What did I say? Remember, we're having that conversation up there. Exactly. That whole spirit of celebration. Exactly, exactly. And I love this, too, because this conference has some really exciting pieces baked in it. So the conference itself is really going to be great for somebody who is a travel professional, a lot of the learning and the workshops. But there are these kind of ancillary things that are for the culture. Absolutely. That you guys, and if you want to share a little bit about those things,

the parties and things like that. Oh no absolutely and this is actually one of the things that we were talking about as far as like the local passes right because not everybody in this city as much as this conference is here as much for our community the black travel community as it is for the

people of Milwaukee, the black box of Milwaukee, we have these ancillary events like Miss Asha was talking about where we can celebrate ourselves and each other, right, in this space. And so when you're thinking about the expo, the expo is where we have a variety of black owned businesses, but we also have our travel suppliers like the hotels, etc. So you want to learn a little bit more, you want to come in and maybe just put your name on a list to get a free.

a free night stay, couple of nights stay at one of our sponsor hotels. This is an opportunity to do so. We have our opening reception at the Holly Davidson Museum. It's gonna be fun too. And to go back to that expo, we have local talent in the expo. And is that free to attend the expo? So with the expo and opening reception, it comes as a combined pass. I think right now it's about $8. Perfect. You can definitely explore the whole day from two to six is the expo and then the evening. So Jay Riley is gonna be in this expo. We have

my creations who I'm wearing today my shirt says more black businesses so you can get amazing things like this we have several Milwaukee vendors that are going to be at the expo being highlighted there so that's going to just be a fun time and yeah we're talking about the opening ceremony at Harley Davidson yeah no it's going to be a really good time I think that evening it's food

entertainment we're working with a couple of Milwaukee folk as well Gerard as well is involved in that we're now is involved in that so it's it's we're really trying to involve as much of the community as possible but that gala on Saturday evening is that

just events that you just have to be. And I'm not just saying that because I'm part of the team. I think this is definitely a space where a lot of people look forward to every single year. And this year, the theme is dandyism. Yeah. So, I mean, when we show up in places, we always show up and show out. And this is definitely one of those places where you can do that. Thank God for the dandyism.

Was it the Met Gala two years ago that did Dandyism? Or did they do it last year? Last year? It's just starting to make a real rise. I'm seeing it everywhere. See that the table just did a gala a couple months back here in Milwaukee that had a feature of Dandyism, which was done really, really well. So I'm glad to see it come back again. It's just fun. It's fun and it's history and it's this connection table where we get to touch

the past and touch the future. For the culture. For the culture. Absolutely. That's everything we do is for the culture. Yeah, it is. There is a great religious thinker who's going on to be with the ancestors, but William Augustus Jones, he talks about how our anthropology and our culture informs our theology. So it's one of the more profound things I think. So when I look at culture,

and the impact of culture, the influence of culture, good, bad, and indifferent. We are the products of our culture. Exactly. It reminds me of something you were saying earlier as well about how we move in spaces like Christianity, right? I mean, even just the idea of libations, where does that come from, right? And there are so many things that we have dotted throughout these different, like you said, theologies that we don't even realize we've done because of our own

And I think that hope, and thank God for the Pan-African movement, which really got us into understanding our connectedness. I said this, I said, you know, I can go some police and there's some black people there. And after a while I go, I know you. We might not even speak the same language, but I know you. There's a connection there.

And I think that we need to celebrate that. Is there a website? Yes, www.blacktravelsummit.com. We're also on Instagram, as Miss Asha said earlier. That's Black Travel Summit at Black Travel Summit. You can find us there as well. And yeah, come on through. You can find out more about our passes. You can find more about our speakers as well. We have a few content creators in the building. So if you follow travel content, you may

recognize some folks for sure. Yeah absolutely. Oh and so I want to plug MKE Black which has been honored to be a part of this.

conference and helping in whatever way that we can to make sure that we're supporting the culture, celebrating with our brothers and sisters from all over the globe, and then highlighting Black businesses here in Milwaukee, and making sure that we point at the amazing things that Black people are finding a way to do in one of the most segregated, most difficult cities in the union to live in. Black people are doing amazing things. And this analogy of diamonds and how they're made under tremendous pressure.

are some really cool diamonds and I get to explore these diamonds and support them every single day so check out mkeblack.org if you want to learn more about amazing businesses all over the state of Wisconsin right now in our directory we have Milwaukee racing Kenosha Green Bay and we're adding Madison to that online directory so please check it out for sure. Anything Miss Amita?

I know. I just want to say thank you for welcoming us to your city. It's definitely been a journey. It's been a blessing to be a part of the history as well. Oh, you really fortunate because you caught some great weather for October. Yes, she did. Yes, she did. I was so happy when I touched down. I was like, yes. Oh, yeah. The fact I was telling Jermaine that, you know, we weren't short chested. They wouldn't wear shorts in October. They brought that weather with them. It just got really weird. Yeah, I mean, it was just like, oh.

man. And they said it was warm. It was hot. It was hot. Wow. It was hot. And not this is not normal for October for us. It carries through the weekend. How about that? No, it's over. No, it's over. Nothing less. No, I was not negative. Weather patterns. I mean, do you be out here in shorts, headband, ear muffs, boots?

That sounds like London. Two years ago, we had a bit of a snowstorm on Halloween. Oh, I think I heard about that. Y'all not going to take my glorious thing from me. These trees is dropping leaves. It's gorgeous. It's beautiful color. Y'all not taking it from me. No. Positivity.

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Thank you. Yeah. No, I'm grateful to be here and grateful for Miss Asha as well. Absolutely. A lot of the work that we've been able to do and the connections we've been able to make is because of Miss Asha. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And before we get out of here, if there is anybody who you're still interested, you didn't get a chance to get to make the call and to and to get in and to get your tickets.

Still reach out to WNOV Get your name on the list because if tickets become available We want to reach out to you and get those tickets to you. So you can enjoy the film festival. I should always good seeing you. Yes, I love coming. And I'm certainly meeting you. Thank you. Mr. Mia Morro. I went to high school with a guy who was his last name was Morro. Was he Haitian? No, no, he was I think he's got Irish.

How do you get a French name? Then of course in Sherlock Holmes, it was Dr. Moreau. I didn't watch Sherlock Holmes.

Because I think people expect me. People expect me. Oh, yeah, you're from England. So I always go against the grain. Oh, so you're in Black Sea, right? I am, I am. That's like us, you know, not knowing. I didn't read Tom Sawyer. No Catcher in the Rye for you, no. Yes. I know we got to go. Yes. Catcher in the Rye is one of my favorite books.

It is it is him. You know, they should say you should have 11 to 13 books. It is in my 11 to 13. Oh, Katra Narai and Pierce. The fact he only wrote one book and he's still eating off of that one book. And I thought Shays of Grey was your favorite book.

I remember my mother, Harold Robbins, he wrote this book called The Carpet Baggers. And it's pretty graphic in there. I'm like 13 reading the book. And so my mother knew that there were some explicit sex stuff in the book. But then my mother, first she got a love set. And then she said, but you know what?

at least he's reading

All right. Awesome. Let me thank Ms. Asha Sawyer. Let me thank Mr. Anita Murrow. Let me thank you Clark Kent. Amen. Which you bruh? Apostle. Apostle, give me the finger. Give me the finger. He said I'm working. You know, it's yesterday I had the pastor of St. Mark AME Church on Dr. Joy Galvin. And you know,

She was just talking about how a lot of tradition things we do. We don't even know what we do. Yes. My understanding is that that's what enslaved people would have to do when they were coming up from work. Really? You have to look into that. And we do it in church. You never see two in church. I've never seen two in church. Never.

I've seen one, you know, people put the little finger up, but I've never seen two in church. So I gave you something else we did. You know, like for some of us, certainly in the Baptist tradition, we would raise our hand doing benediction. The reason why the congregation rose their hand, they did exactly what the minister did. They didn't know they weren't supposed to raise their hand because the minister does this.

He's doing that final blessing. That's what the benediction is. So we just did it, you know, just, just out of rope. It's a lot of stuff we do. Yeah. I just never understood the finger when we're walking out. Just walk out like, like, and nobody going to pay attention to you. Like with the finger up, you going to disappear and they going to see you. Right. It was an acknowledgement that they just creep it on. Like we still see you there.

Just walk out. Let me thank everybody for being part of the program today. You can't say you didn't learn anything today. That part. Let me again thank everybody for being part of the program. Good Lord, Will and Creek. Don't rise. Hope to talk to everybody tomorrow and as always, go from this place in peace.